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Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (1625 – January 1698) was a 17th-centuryIrish languagepoet who was probably received his training in aBardic school .[1] He lived through a period of change inIrish history, and his work reflects the demise of the old Irish cultural and political order and the decline in position of poets in Irish society. His ode,D'Aithle Na bhFileadh ("The High Poets are Gone"), written upon the death of a fellow poet, laments this decline and reflects that Ireland was now a far less educated place due to it.
Ó Bruadair was born inBarrymore,County Cork[2] and spent much of his adult life inCounty Limerick, receiving the patronage of bothIrish andAnglo-Irish landowners. This patronage was vital, as Ó Bruadair was the first of the 17th-century poets to attempt to live purely from his poetry, in the manner of the professional bards of the medieval period. It would seem that this attempt was not particularly successful, as his poemIs mairg nár chrean le maitheas saoghalta indicates that he was reduced to working as a farm labourer.[citation needed] He died in poverty and, as poems such asMairg nach fuil 'na Dhubhthuata ("O It's best be a total boor") show, with bitterness on him towards the 'blind ignorant crew' that was the uneducated peasantry. This view was also reflected by poets such asBrian Mac Giolla Phádraig.
As well as Irish, Ó Bruadair knewLatin andEnglish. As a poet, he wrote on historical and political subjects, as well as producing elegies on a number of his patrons, satires onCromwellianplanters, religious poems and, almost uniquely amongst Gaelic poets,[citation needed] at least twoepithalamia. His versification was also varied, and he wrote in bothsyllabic andassonantalmetres.[citation needed]
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